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hmmm....had a loverly weekend! Went into Boston for a birthday party - a group of us went out and ended up @ Bell in Hand - twas okay at first, the drinks were reeeeeeally tasty and soon we found ourselves flailing about to the music on the second floor. Stringbean is a riot with the menfolk, unfortunately for us she and Whora try to pass them off on the rest of us. Stories not fit to type here....Got back to the apt. by 3 and had to leave early cuz Amsel had a baby showa to attend and I had a family picnic out of state~which was actually a good time, also. The weatha was beeeeaaautiful. And now, the weekend has passed. wanh! And I hafta work Saturday, but I took next Tuesday off...now I'm thinking I should've picked another day cuz I work 12:30-8 on Tuesdays and if I picked another day then I woulda had TWO days to sleep in late!!!!!!!! aaaaah crikees! The Count's Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderIt started with a simple affection for counting andthe terror it induced in others, didn't it?But now it's turned into a full-blownlife-consuming chaotic nightmare of order,repetition, zealousness, and perfectionism.You used to be so grand, but now you findyourself obsessively worrying over the littlestthings--like, maybe if you don't check thelight switch at least once every two minutes,the electricity will go out (and damnit, you'rea vampire--that shouldn't be a problem!), ormaybe if you don't wash your hands until yourseams are coming out, you'll get some fataldisease. Get yourself some treatment. Which Sesame Street Muppet's Dark Secret Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

Leopold

Wanh! My beta fish, Leopold is sickly with the Dropsy. Poor thing! He's bloated and can't swim very well, so he either lays at the bottom or sits in his plant. He does have an appetite and his scales aren't pineconey yet, but I researched this illness and I've found it's almost always fatal unless you catch it early. He's been imbalanced(physically of course) for a few weeks now, maybe 2 months, but I've only just noticed his belly growing. I wish for the fish version of the immaculate conception, but I don't think this is it. I can't afford to fix him cuz I'd have to get another tank and a heater..tho I think I have one somewhere and some meds and blahbitty blah. I do love him dearly, as he always greets me bowlside when I enter the room and seems to enjoy me serenading him: Le-ah-pold - swimmin' in yer bowl- Le-ah-pold - you betta grow old -with meeeee. Well, I HAVE had him for 2.5 years and their life expectancy is 2-3 years....so ....I just have to find out how to kill him! All the info I find is conflicting(& cruel for MY mental health:throwing him agains the floor, chopping his head off - and cutting out the brain!) but I think the best option is to put some drops of clove oil in his bowl, its an anisthetic & as long as you don't return the fish to clean water they're supposed to drift off to the ocean in the sky...or whatever. I will be ridden with guilt if I have to kill him ~ and if I let him suffer. If I find out he just had gas, I'll be so pissed. Let's have a moment of silence for my lil buddy *sniff*sniff*I LOVES HIM!

zzzzz

I can't win. As soon as I came home tonite I fell into bed and slept for 2 hours. But now I'm still tired...wanh! I was hoping it would put a spring in my step. I feel more like I've got a stone in my head. I must perk up. PERKY PERKY! at least I think I won't have trouble getting to sleep later on...I was afeared I might be awake until the wee hours. Then again I can get my second wind around 11 if I make it till then.oooooh the tragedy.At least there's a very cool program on PBS about high school seniors who have won the Presidential Something Scholarship for the Arts. Crikee I've gotta git to work being creative cuz these kids can kick my arse.

bizzie

Busy: v, to be involved in a taskBizzie: n, my paternal side of the family's reference to a fart, as in "Pardon me! I just did a bizzie. Musta been from all that brocolli. I'm sorry about the stench, but can't you appreciate the fact that I'm not in pain anymore?" I just got home and I'll be back to work too soon! We had a staff training seminar for customer service so I had to go in for 9 am and then work through till 8 cuz today was my night shift. UGH. The class woulda been fine had it been only one hour - but 4 and a half! I was cold and I kept drinking coffee, then water cuz I had a tickle in my throat and all that did was make me hafta pee. loverly. At least the bathroom was a break from "how not to be condescending" to the public. honk shooey honk shooey with droolI need a car. I like my rental well enuf - it's so nice having a CD player and power steering! And automatics are a breeze! But the Tupperwheels costing me too much so I hafta hurry and harrass StanDaMan for the the junky, but FREE! Subaru. I hope it lasts a while. I don't want car payments.what else what else what else???I'm so pooped when I get home I don't have time for ME. I don't have energy to be creative~thankfully I get to be somewhat so at work, even tho that kinda shtuff isn't that challenging~I don't know how people work full time and have kids! I can just take care of m'self. I feel like it's rush rush rush - rush in the mornin' cuz I sleep as late as I can possibly get away with plus 10 minutes, rush @ work with a million different tasks, rush @ lunch cuz it's not long enuf, rush to get home cuz traffic's a biddlyatch, rush to eat so I can rush to relax, rush to sleep cuz I stayed up too late watching TV in my zombie like state. I'm so...busy!

object d'sex

who wants to be one?

Sniffles the clown

So last week I had to file a gazillion papers - craft ideas, but mostly hundreds(seemed like that much) of flyers and letters and promotional pamphlets and postcards from programmers. The scariest one I came across was a full color(frighteningly brilliant and bright) postcard from Waffles the Clown. I would have preferred Crusty. This guy's name alone freaked me out. I don't like clowns that much...but lately, what with my nose sniffling, I've decided if I were to be a clown that would be my name. It would make a lot of sense, too. Cuz I'd have nasal problems from all the coke I'd be sniffin' what with being dealing with being a CLOWN.anyway.I slept till 1 pm today. I can't remember the last time I did that....but it was cuz I was up till 4 am watching a documentary I rented about a mentally challenged man. It was really good - the first DVD was the original documentary from the 1970s when no one gave a hoot about PCness and he was a retard, and the second DVD was an update 20 years later about what's happened since. If you're ever desperate enuf to spend three hours watching a touching view on a jewish family and the growing independence of their son, go rent Best Boy/Best Man. Tomorrow I'm gonna watch another doc called A Brother's Keeper, it's a "heartwarming tale of murder".Ok ok....so after I woke I got my arse outa bed and showered and dressed and defied my pillow calling out for me and did some errands. I had to return a skirt to a store and of course I bought another, and some pants, and and and. And then Amsel and I were all highschoolish and walked 'round the mall tonite and made up for our childish Sat. night by spending our money at the Xmas tree shoppe. God we're fogies. Then I got all teary in the driveway cuz I miss my old work pals A LOT, and then I thought of lotsa other peeps I miss. Oooh well. So Sniffles it is.

fishface

What an evening! Was a lil late gittin' to pic up the Sauna..so the reservation Amsel put in was given away by the time we got to Osaka, but we were seated in a timely fashion nevertheless. We got a plate of sushi for one,which was a lot and then 2 dishes of some rollies and in her excitement Amsel ordered a second dish of 10 items which we couldn't eat at all, so she took it home...it wasn't cheap either and she was trying to cancel the order but couldn't do it in time. Of course, we DID have room for dessert and it was Mango(really tasted like some sorta peachy vegetable) ice cream for Amsel and the Sauna and tempura green tea for me...the doughy part was nasasstay but the ice cream was good. I dunno about green tea, it's flavor could best be described as icy. There was an incident with the water waiter that I'm too tired to tell right now...but all in all it was an entertaining evening and I will definetly make Osaka another resting place for my ever expanding bootay.I think I caught a cold in my right nostril. I hope it doesn't progress to the state where a plug of tissue is required whilst I sleep.